Harrington for Hope Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922017435
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cookeville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9312489000
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,639
- Expenses
- $49,180
- Assets
- $77,135
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mitchell Harrington (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Mitchell Harrington (Executive Director): $7,803 total reported compensation
- Erin Keyes Tindle (Assistant Director): $2,640 total reported compensation
- Kimberly Harrington (Volunteer Director): $2,015 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization raises funds to support child burn survivors and their families. The mission of Harrington for Hope is to cover the costs for all campers to attend Camp Hope in Columbia, TN, provide scholarships to campers, and to support families of burn survivors through the Family Assistance Program.
What it reported doing in 2024
Donations were made to seven non-profit organizations and several families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 42% for direct work, and 58% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 22.1%; rating input score 22; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -94.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.1% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $41K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $8K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 22/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.